The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-03-24
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house.
Mrs. LooAS is posted by many begging
letters.
A RETURN Of the untidy dragging skirta
is threatened.
SroSors have been discovered In tho
lake OF Chautauqua.
SOM Gcorgians get 300 bushels Of sweet
potatoes out Of an acre.
MIs. DRrsE refused 10 take OF her hustle
before going TO the galows.
TmE antlcrs OF 80 elk wore shipped from
Oregon 10 England last year.
, sAM. JoSEs preached twice at Toronto,
recently, making S2,GOO thereby.
A ''MoTnEn Of triplctsn writes TO Mrs.
Hendricks for money 10 buy cow
No Mans Land, Kns., and the State Of
Connecticut are about the same size.
JupoE MASSEY, Of Douglassvillc, Ca,
killed eleven partridges at one shot.
THE three Cole brothers, OF Harrison,
Ga, have their hearts on the right side,
IT would be well II experts were to OK.
anime railroad bridges before tho accidents.
A WILL nj Yakutsk, Siberia, has been
estimated to be frozen TO depth Of 6l2
feet.
THEopoRE TLToS is living in Paris and
devoting himself in part TO literary pur-
suits.
ALLkoEp corruption in the municipal
affairs Of Brooklyn is being inyesti
gated.
TnE King Of Italy now has whole Pull.
man car 10 himself when he wants 70
travel.
A TWENTY BI0uT-ToEp cat, with one vel
low and one green eye, is exhibited In New
Haven.
To a,iNr,lN peace for the next seven
years Germany is 10 have an army Of 46S,.
200 men.
Mus. BkrARp TArLon and her daughter
Lillian have returned 10 Germany 10 reside
permanently,
JrrrnnoS DAVIS says he is too old To
travel, and never expects TO be in Wash
ington again.
TnB EInpress Of Austria Is said 10 have
literary ambitions and is intending 10 pub
lish book soon.
An apple treo OVER 100 years old aud -four
and u half feet in diameter has been cut
down IN Lyme, Conn.
TnRrrrS Of tho noted twenty passes o
the Rocky Mountains are more than 10000
feet above the sea level.
WoRK on tho steam cruisers. Boston,
Atlanta nnd Chicago, has been suspended
for lack OF appropriation.
SfNcE the ADJOURNMENT Of congrcssa
marble bust 81 John e. Calhoun has boon
placed In the Senate gallery,
CARDINAL MANNING has heartily indorscd
the policy advocated by Cardinal Gibbons
toward the Knights OF Labor.
MAMIE DrvALi- notorious courtcsan Of
Indiana and Tennessee, will reform since
she has been left y large fortune,
THE Louisville and Nashville will build
this year 1874 miles ~ new railroad, Of
which lOi miles win he in kentucky.
A VILLAGE, suburban TO Atlanta Ga, and
TO DO exclusively for colorcd people, has
been laid out and ia 10 be Incorporated.
CHARLES H. HElsER, an umbrella mcnder
In Pittsburgh, has inherited u fortune OF
$4,000 from a cousin who died in Aus.
tralla
800 TO tho fund for the erection OF a
hNHuHoHttN thu lhte Nitc-I Ithlutnt men
bricks. .t
TnK inventor OF tho rcpeating-riae re-
Gently adopted for the Austrian army has
becn decorated by Emperor Francis
Joseph.
THE name Dakota is corruption OF Spa
hn-sota, meaning many heads--the cranl-
nms OF buffaloes being scattered thick on
all the trails.
SouTn CAROLINA mother has record
Of seventeen children in nine years. The
first was solitary voyager. Tho others
came in pairs
1T costs the Government for each United
States Senator 5000 year salary and
g., 907 q year additional for attendants and
incidental expenses
TItE President, treasurer and counsellor
OF the "lsritish-Amcricau Claim Agency
were arrested In New York. few days
ago, charged with fraud.
AT Detroit, Mich, Frcd Frisbce said TO
his landlady; III you insist on mo paying
my board bill will kill myself" She in
sisted. He shot himself
TnE widow of Garibaldi lives in quiet
street OF Turin, the walls Of her little par
lor covered with flags, medals and ether
memcntoes OF the dead hero
Az inmate OF the Middletown IN. W
Asylum is worth 100000 He became in.
sane over religion, and imagines he is
President OF the United States.
Mr.. CosxERY, the new secretary Of le-
cation to Mexico, will leave for his post
about the last OF this month. Mr.. Connery
will collect the data for history Of Mex
leo
JosErH CARTER, of Recklesstown, N. j.,
recently butchered thirty remarkably fine
hogs. The llghtest weighed 695 pounds the
heaviest SO; and the total weight was
2i.3S4 pounds. tf
JAMES TAYLOR, while digging a well on
his farm near Excelsior, Wis, found in
bed of gravel twenty feet below the sur
face n lot OF beautiful amethysts and one
very large and valuable ruby.
PEOPLE who buy fancy candy and find it
to-be very sticky may lay this fiattering
righteousness to their souls, namely; That
they arc eating glucose, which is the out
put OF cornstarch and sulphuric acid.
On one OF the principal streets OF Thorn
aston, Ga, the same room is occupied by
physician and shoemakor-the physicians
ONCE being in front and the shoemaker's
a. a.